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St Mary

St Mary

Witnesham

Suffolk

Tower added mid C14 with crenellated and flush- work panelled parapets

Architectural Features

2-light belfry openings and lion-head gargoyles.

The simple early C14 south doorway was reduced in size mid C14, and given a moulded stone frame

Over the outer doorway is a clock by Fordham 1737, and an earlier sundial The nave walling was raised mid C15 and given 2-light clerestory windows

The roof was ceiled below the collars in C17 with moulded plaster ribs.

Good octagonal C15 limestone font with figures and shields on alternate faces of bowl, and animal sculpture around the stem

Fine octagonal pulpit of c.1600 with carved and arcaded panels.

a number at the west end have reused poppyhead standards from C15 benches, and a choir-stall also has a well-carved C15 end.

In the chancel floor are 5 ledger slabs of C17 and C18, and in the nave floor a further 7.

A fragment of C14 stained glass in the south-west nave window.

Glass by Baillie, c.1846, in the east window, and by Ward and Hughes c.1873 in the nave.